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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Rita Omokha

‘I cried for a long time’: Black hair stylist’s dream crushed by racist neighbor

Woman in white pants and black jacket stands for a portrait in front of a home
Angel Pittman outside her parent's home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photograph: Alycee Byrd/The Guardian

Angel Pittman’s dream was to create a mobile hair salon. So the 21-year-old stylist bought less than an acre of unrestricted land in North Carolina for $10,000 in September and purchased three school buses for $14,000 with money she had saved since she was 17.

“I’ve never seen anybody driving around doing people’s hair,” she said. “But not only did I want to get paid for doing hair, but I wanted to drive around, do a couple of homeless people’s hair and maybe go to some prisons and help incarcerated people.”

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